Slug Guns and Muzzleloaders

[Kurt]

This is a interesting forum.
I have never shot a designated slug gun but shot a lot of round ball matches. It has entered my mind many times to build a slug gun but that is as far as it got.
Seems like you guys like using the tougher freezer paper and vellum paper.
I have several different 100% cotton rag Vellum papers and two I like to use for my hunting bullets because it resists water when in the field and it is a tough soft Vellum unlike most that has a tendency to be hard and stiff to patch a bullet with.
Paper made by Helix in Bensenville IL is one, Item No. 37101 it's .003" thick and the other is Calque made by Canson it is a 25# paper that is .0018" thick. I found this in Walmart.

I think if I was seriously into this slug gun shooting for compition I would seriously invest in a swaging press and dies. I read were some of you like a two part bullet with a hard base and soft on top. I have swagged bullets using 1/40 for the first .300 at the base and hard 1/16 on top but I found that I needed away to lock the two together or I would get two holes on the target so I had to find a way to lock them together with a pin and socket but I had to make some punches to form the core before swaging the nose do this but it is a lot better then making a double lead pour into a mould.

In the photo below is a base wad or scraper wad made out of copper that has been in use since the 1800's and I called the NRA about the legality of using it in a sanctioned match and the answer I got was as long as it is a flat wad and not a cup like a gas check it's ok. No restrictions on type of wad just so it's not a gas check.
Would something like the scraper wad be legal for the slug gun? It was used and is period correct.
I use these in the Hand Guns using pure lead or a alloy and they shoot good that I use them for the bulls eye matches.

By the way that lead pimple can be flattened flush with the base.

Kurt